Living life 100 miles an hour, we sometimes lose focus on the important things and are often bogged down by mundane and non-essential activities we could do without.

Here are a few tips to declutter your life.

1. Take a step back
Every month or so it pays to step back and look at what’s taking up most of your precious time.
Questions such as: is this essential? Do I enjoy it? Where would I prefer to spend my time?
Asking yourself these questions will provide you insight to what needs to be improved removed or refined.

2. Remove or Delegate
This can be quite tricky as it may mean saying no to friends or colleagues or passing tasks over to another. This would a require a bit of finesse and firmness to achieving this in a way all parties are accepting of the change.

3. Two birds with one stone: Combine activities
Simply combining tasks in an efficient order will dramatically free up time.
Schedule all shopping or errands into one trip. doing my food prep for the following week in one day, and so forth. It’s best to stay focused and stick to task at hand.

4. Eliminate the noise
Distractions, could be the difference between a task taking one hour or three.
Reconfigure or uninstall social media apps, get up earlier, only check your email at certain times, don’t read a text until you have the bandwidth to.

5. To Be Confirmed
Don’t be so quick to say yes to new plans or activities. Rather try “Can I get back to you” and give yourself a bit of time to assess the opportunity cost of accepting.

6. Do Nothing Days
Where ever possible do as much of your week to week tasks during the week. Nothing recharges the battery more than being able to relax and unwind in the weekend not having to do anything.